With Musical Mode active, the Warp icon will glow orange in the Sample Editor and you can configure the Warp Setting from a pop-up menu, which includes a variety of presets to choose the type of material, such as Drums, Plucked or Vocals, along with an Advanced Setting to configure the Grain size, Overlap and Variance parameters manually. Many users will welcome the fact Cubase now imports Acid files and will automatically extract the tempo and length information for you and activate Musical Mode. Once you have imported an audio file, all you need to do is open it in the Sample Editor, select the new, snappily named Audio Tempo Definition Tool to detect the tempo and length of the Audio Event, and activate Musical Mode for that Event. Setting up an Audio Event for warp speed (groan.) is easy with the new Audio Tempo Definition Tool, which you can see selected here. The basic operation of Audio Warping is fairly straightforward, and the process of taking a pre-recorded audio loop into Cubase and getting it to play in time with the Project usually takes just a few mouse clicks. One of Steinberg's headline features for Cubase SX 3 is the new audio 'warping' feature, which builds Acid, Live, or Garage Band-like functionality for pitch-shifting and time-stretching audio in real time directly into Cubase. But for now, let's investigate what new features lie in wait for Cubase users in this latest version.
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This year, Nuendo users can expect an upgrade to follow, if history is to repeat itself, that encompasses all of the features described in the following review, along with some additional enhancements aimed specifically at Nuendo users. Long-time Steinberg users will remember that this situation is the reverse of last year's round of upgrades, where Nuendo was first application out of Hamburg with the version 2 code, with the upgrade to Cubase following a month or so later.
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Since the first release of Cubase SX in 2002, the company started a trend of releasing a new version of this popular Windows and Mac sequencing application each successive year: 2003 saw the release of Cubase SX 2, and now, in 2004, we have the third version of Cubase SX.Īs with previous version of SX, Cubase and Nuendo, Steinberg's post-production-oriented media production system, share a common programming foundation, meaning that Cubase SX 3 includes many of the improvements that went into later version of Nuendo, as well as being the first of the two applications to be released with the new version 3 code base. For Steinberg, however, a year seems to make a far bigger difference. But with increased competition, most notably from Apple and Cakewalk, can Steinberg maintain their cross-platform advantage?įor Stanley Adams, a day made a big difference. Note the main text to see why the performance meter is interesting here, and also notice how much smaller tracks can now appear in the Project window in version 3.Ĭubase SX 3 is the latest incarnation of one of the best-known brands in sequencing software, offering many new features and tying up the loose ends from previous generations of Cubase. Here you can see a multitrack audio Project where each Event is being 'warped' so that it stays locked to the Project's Tempo Track.
Audio Warping brings real-time pitch-shifting and time-stretching to Cubase SX.